Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals

Description of Resource:

The purpose of this guide is to provide hospital leaders and human resources staff a basic description of four high-performance work practices (HPWPs) that can help improve an organization's capacity to effectively attract, select, hire, develop, and retain and deploy personnel in ways that best support a high-performing health care system. It also offers approaches and recommendations for implementing HPWPs in their organizations.

The Healthy People 2020 evidence-based resources identified have been selected by subject matter experts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Each of the selected evidence-based resources has been rated and classified according to a set of specific criteria based, in part, on publication status, publication type, and number of studies. This classification scheme does no necessarily consider all dimensions of quality, such as statistical significance, effect size (e.g., magnitude of effect), meaningfulness of effect, additional effect over control, and study design (e.g., sample size, power, internal validity, external validity, generalizability, potential biases, potential confounders).